paul my guess is he has the card in one of the slots meant for vga in the top 1-3 x16 slots. The mobo bios is reading the lsi as a vga card and not taking it. I think he needs to hunt for a setting under the chipset menu in the bios that lets him address the slot. You know that setting you can do that asks vga priority. onboard, pci, pcx, pcx2 etc. i think he needs to set that one. I think its picking the slot he has the lsi and the bios is reading the priority wrong or he needs to get that card in the bottom x16 slot. set his raid up on x4 slot and then he can move it around wherever he wants so he can get the full x8 bandwidth.
you agree?

mk get your ass in here while we are on. let us know what is going on.